Writer & Entrepreneur

THE PERFECT HUSBAND (personal essay-satire)

2021 Humor Finalist, Missouri Review Miller Audio Prize Contest

Audio Recording at Miller Aud-Cast #29 (Oct. 2021)

Honorable Mention, 47th New Millennium Writing Awards (2019)

Published by High Shelf Press (Issue VIII) (2019)

[Musical Inspiration: American Boy, Estelle]

THE DANGER OF SUCCESS: CEO SYNDROME (business article)

Published by CEOWORLD Magazine (Apr. 2021)

Published in Italian by CapoVerso (Apr. 2021)

EMBRACING CHANGE (business article)

Blog post at PPI Smart Tech (Apr. 2021)

Published in Greek by Newshub Greece (Apr. 2021)

THE BOTHER OF WATERMELON SEEDS (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published (hard copy only) by Santa Monica Review (Fall issue) (2020)

[Musical Inspiration: Trigk-Trigk Ta Potirakia, George Dalaras & Bampis Tsertos]

NEW, USEFUL AND NONOBVIOUS (personal essay-creative nonfiction)  

Finalist, Gabriele Rico Challenge for Nonfiction

Semi-finalist, Ruminate’s VanderMey Nonfiction Prize

Published by Reed Magazine (Issue #153) (2020) 

(Note: The events depicted in the essay were streamlined for literary purposes and didn’t all happen in a single day.)

[Musical Inspiration: Renegades, X-Ambassadors]

READY OR NOT (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by Superstition Review (Vol. 25) (2020)

[Musical Inspiration: I, Kendrick Lamar]

ROAD OUT OF DAMASCUS (short story-fiction)

Finalist, Jack Dyer Fiction Prize

Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for new writers

Published by Crab Orchard Review (Vol. 22) (2018)

Re-published by fresh.ink (2019)

[Musical Inspiration: Ruby Falls, Guster]

10 STEPS TO A UNICORN EXIT (business article-satire)

Published by Venture Beat (2018)

Re-published by High Shelf Press (Vol. IX) (2019)

[Musical Inspiration: Number One Spot, Ludacris]

CRUMBS ON THE FLOOR (short story-fiction)

An earlier version of this story earned Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for new writers. Although it is a standalone story, it is also the first chapter of an as-yet-unpublished novel about friendship. The novel was a Semifinalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Contest.

Published by The Midnight Oil (Vol. 2) (2019)

[Musical Inspiration: Waiting for the Sun, The Doors]

HOOKED AND HANGING (short story-fiction)

Although it is a standalone story, it is also a late chapter in the same as-yet-unpublished novel as above.

Published by The Write Launch (Jan. issue) (2019)

[Musical Inspiration: Broad-Shouldered Beasts, Mumford & Sons]

ABOUT MY DAD (2018)

[Musical Inspiration: Kyra Giorgena, George Dalaras]

GREECE THROUGH A LENS (essay)

Introduction to ZOI, a book of photography by Stella Johnson (2018)

[Musical Inspiration: To Spiti Mou to Patriko, Giorgos Zambetas]

THE WAY OUT (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by Antioch Review (Vol. 76, No.3) (2018)

[Musical Inspiration: As We Enter, Damian Marley & Nas]

PARISIAN KISSES (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by HCE Review (Vol. II, Issue II) (2018)

[Musical Inspiration: Echoes, Pink Floyd]

RESTIVE AND UPRISING (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by Dreamers Creative Writing (Year 1 Anthology) (2018)

An earlier version of the essay, called Rejection, was published in Poetry and Business (2016) and was the basis for the short story, Road out of Damascus

[Musical Inspiration: Nina Cried Power, Hozier]

SEEING IN THE DARK (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by Bellevue Literary (Fall issue) (2017)

[Musical Inspiration: The Funeral, Band of Horses]

SHISHA (short story-fiction)

Winner, Tethered by Letters’ Short Story Contest

Finalist in PNWA Literary Contest 

Published in Tethered by Letters' F(r)iction #7 (2017)

[Musical Inspiration: Third Piano Concerto, Sergei Rachmaninoff]

FINGERPRINT (short story-fiction)

Runner-up, Prole Books' Prolitzer Prose Competition

Published in Prole21 (2016)

[Musical Inspiration: So. Central Rain, REM]

GREECE'S FLEDGLING TECH SCENE (business article)

Published in Huffington Post Blog (2016)

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS at American College of Thessaloniki (2016)

IRON DOME (short story-fiction)

Editor's Pick, 2015 Northern Colorado Writers Contest

Published in Pooled Ink: 2015 NCW Contest Winners (2015)

[Musical Inspiration: Take Me to Church, Hozier]

Marina Hatsopoulos was Founding CEO of Z Corporation, an early market leader in 3D printing out of MIT. The Company was the winner of the "New England Technology Fast 50" for 2001, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the region, and was listed in the Inc 500 ranking of the nation’s 500 fastest-growing private companies by Inc Magazine. She is currently Chair of the Board of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically-levitated bearingless motor technology and Founding Advisor of Inkbit, an MIT startup. She is a member of the National Board of Research & Innovation for the Republic of Cyprus. She is on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and she is President of Hellenic Innovation Network. She is on the Advisory Board of the Nantucket Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum Greece, Eurobank's EGG accelerator, OK!Thess accelerator, Mindspace entrepreneurial program, and Cyprus Seeds research commercialization program.   

Ms. Hatsopoulos has served as a financial expert on corporate boards, both public and private, from startup through enterprise. She was a Director and investor in Cynosure, a $400M leader in the laser aesthetics market which was sold to Hologic for $1.65 billion in 2017. She was a Director and investor in Dear Kate, which makes performance apparel, and Tea Forte, a luxury tea brand which was sold to Sara Lee. She served as Director of the GSI Group, a $300 million supplier of laser-based advanced manufacturing systems for the global semiconductor and industrial markets. She was a Director of Contex Holding, a $100 million leading manufacturer of large-format scanners and software. As Chair of the Committee on Finance and Investment of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), she oversaw the budgets and investments of this 120,000-member organization. 

She serves on the Board of The Bridge Boston Charter School and has served on the Board of The Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. Ms. Hatsopoulos graduated with a B.A. in Pure Mathematics and a B.A. in Music from Brown University in 1987 (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Mathematics Prize, and Faculty Fellowship). She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1993 (Sigma Xi).   

Business Press/Awards/Publications

Ms. Hatsopoulos was honored with Mass. High Tech’s 2001 All-Star Award for Hardware. She and Z Corp. have been profiled in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine , a Boston Museum of Science podcast, and MIT Technology Review. She has published articles in Design News and Time Compression Technologies, and contributed a chapter, titled “Product Differentiation from Technology,” to Jumpstart: Launching Your Business Venture, Profitably and Successfully (Aspatore, 2003). Her work with Greek startups was discussed on Greek EPT TV (2020).

Select Speaking Engagements

Ms. Hatsopoulos speaks on topics related to entrepreneurship, with a recent Tedx talk about the opportunity for startups to grow the economy in Greece.

• Αυτή-Γυναίκα, "Σχέση μέντορα" (Nov. 2021)
• Nantucket Conference-moderator, "Managing Boards and Advisors" (Oct. 2021)
• MIT Innovation Leadership Bootcamp, "Better Decision-Making with Diversity of Opinions" (Sep. 2021)
• ImpacTalk-"Pandemic, innovation, biotechnology - the triplet of the new era" (July 2021)
• MIT Innovation Leadership Bootcamp, "Value Proposition" (June 2021)
• U.S. State Dept. Female Tech Entrepreneurs Forum, "Tech Entrepreneurship as a path for Women" (June 2021)
• Unifund and Onassis Foundation-moderator, "From Research to Market" (May 2021)
• Hellenic American Chamber of Commerce-panelist, "Making Greece a Global Tech Hub" (May 2021)
• Greek Consulate of Munich-panelist, "Establishment of startups by Greek Scientists in Bavaria" (May 2021)
• Delphi Economic Forum-moderator, "Technology Transfer: Commercializing Research" (May 2021)
• Hellenic Innovation Network-moderator, "From Greek Startup to Global Scale-up" (Apr. 2021)
• MIT Innovation Bootcamp, "Value Proposition" (Mar. 2021)
• The Marketing Club, "Αγκαλιάζοντας την αλλαγή" ("Embracing Change")-Thessaloniki, Greece (Mar. 2021)
• Brown University, "Managing in Adversity: Levitronix Technologies Surviving Covid" (Feb. 2021)
• Greek Economic Summit panel, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce (Dec. 2020)
• MIT Women & Wine Wednesdays, "Managing a Career Pivot" (Dec. 2020)
• George Washington University, "New Venture Entrepreneurial Finance" (Oct. 2020)
• MIT Innovation Leadership Bootcamp & MIT/Harvard Medical School Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp-"Customer Discovery" (Oct. 2020)
• Cyprus Forum-panelist, "Developing Entrepreneurs in an Academic Setting" (Oct. 2020)
• Nantucket Conference-moderator, "3D Printing a Unicorn" with Max Lobovsky (Oct. 2020)
• Nantucket Conference-moderator, "Building a Portfolio of Immigrant Founders," with Semyon Dukach (Oct. 2020)
• Society of Petroleum Engineers, University of Suez student chapter, "Tech Entrepreneurship" (Sep. 2020)
• MIT/YPO Joint Workshop-"Digital Transformation" (Aug. 2020)
• AmCham American Chamber of Commerce in Cyprus online panel (June 2020)
• Brown University-"Managing Crisis" (June 2020)
• Athens Univ. of Economics & Business-"Avoidable Mistakes in Commercializing Research" (May 2020)
• MIT Bootcamp-"Creating a Startup" (Apr. 2020)
• Tedx UTHLarissa-"From the Ashes of Crisis Arises Opportunity"-Larissa, Greece (Mar. 2020)
• Brown Univ. Masters of Science in Technology Leadership-Convocation Address, "On Leadership"-Prov., RI (Feb. 2020)
• Cyprus Seeds, "Pitching" (Nov. 2019)
• George Washington University, "Entrepreneurial Finance" (Oct. 2019)
• U.S. Dept. of State Speaker Program, Osaka Institute of Tech-“U.S. Tech Startup Hubs & Elements of Success”-Osaka, Japan (Sept. 2019)
• U.S. Dept. of State Speaker Program, Kyushu Institute of Technology-Iizuka, Japan (Sept. 2019)
• U.S. Dept. of State Speaker Program, Fukuoka GrowthNext Conference Keynote-Fukuoka, Japan (Sept. 2019)
• Cyprus Seeds-“Avoidable Mistakes in Commercializing Research”-Nicosia, Cyprus (June 2019)
• MIT International Workshop on Innovation-“Breaking Rules & Entrepreneurship”-Cambridge, MA (June 2019)
• Brown University-“On Entrepreneurship”-Providence, RI (Oct. 2018)
• Hellenic American Bankers Association-“Trends in Entrepreneurship”-New York, NY (October 2018)
• Athens University of Economics & Business-Athens, Greece (May 2018)
• Harvard University-"New, Useful & Nonobvious"-Cambridge, MA (May 2018)
• MIT-“Managing Adversity as CEO”-Cambridge, MA (2008-2018)
• MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conf. (MARC) Keynote-"Startup Decisions"-Bretton Woods, NH (Jan. 2018)
• Aristeon Award Acceptance Keynote-Boston, MA (Nov. 2017)
• THI Venture Fair Keynote-“Investing in Greece”-Athens, Greece (June 2016)
• University of Cyprus-“Elements of a Successful Startup”-Nicosia, Cyprus (Oct. 2016)
• Reload Greece-“Activating the Diaspora”-London, England (Sep. 2016)
• American College of Thessaloniki-Commencement Address-Thessaloniki, Greece (July 2016)
• MIT Enterprise Forum Greece- "Starting Smart: An entrepreneur, investor and mentor perspective" (Nov. 2015)
• MIT Enterprise Forum Mexico -Guadalajara, Mexico (March 2015)